agsansoo

Wow I haven't posted any new photos in a while. LOL Sorry ! Check out my first thread for the old photos.

Disclaimer: They look alot better in real life my camera skills suck.

agsansoo

The stag on the left is absolutely beautiful in person. It has a blue base and stems. This is a frag of the exact coral on the Warner Marine ReefPure Ultimate Aminos bottles.

Slug

Awesome, i am jelous. Whats the frag on the rack top left corner? Good polyp extension on the bottom middle one. Looks hairy much like chip's acro.

agsansoo

That's a good question. LOL I have no cue. My friend gave me that coral and the green one to the right. I guess I'm going to have to look them up.

agsansoo

The coral in the bottom middle is my first acro that's grown from a 1/2" frag to a big 3" frag. LOL (first coral to be moved off the frag rack). It's Cali Tort.

Slug

Ah should of known, i love torts.

Mike

Very nice Andy! Is that a red monti on the right? I'm have about a 1 inch frag of red monti.

Slug

Being a stony coral addict myself i must ask....have any more pics?

Hypnox

Awesome pic. Someday when my dream tank is up I hope to be able to care for corals like those.

agsansoo

Yea it's a red monti cap. It's one of the first SPS corals I purchased over a year ago. I want one on each end of the tank. This one has grown the fastest. The other monti cap I stuck on the bottom of my tank didn't grow as well.

agsansoo

Please read my Disclaimer above ... LOL I will post some more photo soon. (I'm at work right now)

agsansoo

Thanks Hypnox. It's a whole lot of trial and error. Some corals do great and some RTN for no reason at all. All and all it's both fun and challenging.

agsansoo

A few more shots.

Alessa

Oh! that cardinal and the tang look gorgeous! The corals look great as well

agsansoo

Thanks. Yea they are big camera hogs. LOL

Matt

The Tang And Cardinal Are Awesome And All Those Corals Just Make My Eyes Go Crazy

agsansoo

sgould

Hey! Tell that snail he's not a frag!

morganrules

gimme some for my SW tank. jk but they are amazing im just gonna be doing polyps really

agsansoo

He's going to be, if he keeps knocking over the other frags on the rack. LOL

sgould

Matt

LOL silly snail.

Nie frags Andy

-Matt

agsansoo

Since upgrading my lighting my corals seem to be happier. (me too ) Here's a photo of one of my orange monti caps. It's the one near the bottom of my tank.

Mike

Great lookin monti with some nice growth tips along the edges. My green montis are really taking off too. Montis are some of the fastest growing corals I've kept thus far, even faster than the acros it seems. After reading your posts on the octopus skimmer I got into researching them and picked up an octopus 800s skimmer (HOB type). It's a monster. I'll put up a review in the coming weeks on it. Very impressed with it so far.

Thanks,
Mike

agsansoo

Yeah this monti wasn't growing at all under my old lighting. Nice score on the octo 800. Those octo's look smaller in the photos ! LOL Can't wait to read your review.

agsansoo

Update:
I picked up a wild acro colony the first week of December. Here's what it looked like at the time of purchase. It's better looking in person. Base is red and orange with green hairy PE.

12-09-2008




Here it is on 01-18-2009

agsansoo

One more photo.

01-18-2009

agsansoo

In one month it's starting to sprout new growth (all lower right side -3 o'clock to 6 o'clock). Except that one branch at very top of the picture.

cerianthus

I guess you are using HQI MH/T5?

agsansoo

I'm using (2) 250 watt HQI MH with ReefLux 12K for growth. I use to have (1) 250 watt Phoenix 14K, but growth was little to none. Color of corals was better, but only in the top 4" of the tank. Everywhere else the corals were STN'ing and brown.